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Pearl millet germplasm at ICRISAT genebank - status and impact

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Title Pearl millet germplasm at ICRISAT genebank - status and impact
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Reddy, K N
Gowda, C L L
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is an important food
and forage crop in Africa and Asia, and forage in
Americas. It is probably the world’s hardiest crop and has
great potential because of its suitability to the extreme
limits of agriculture. It is mainly cultivated in Niger,
Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana, Mali, Senegal,
Central African Republic, Cameroon, Sudan, Botswana,
Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa in Africa;
and India, Pakistan and Yemen in Asia. The success in
crop improvement programs depends largely on the extent
of genetic variability available to the researchers. Pearl
millet is endowed with enormous genetic variability for
various morphological traits, yield components, adaptation
and quality traits. In ensuring that the plant breeders will
have genetic resources for use in plant breeding programs,
collection, conservation, characterization, evaluation,
documentation and distribution of plant genetic resources
is very important. Large efforts were made to collect and
conserve the pearl millet diversity before it is lost forever.
In this article, we have summarized the current status of
pearl millet germplasm assembled in the genebank at the
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT) and discussed its impact.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2007
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2741/1/PearlMilletGermplasmAtICRISATGenebank_2007.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Reddy, K N and Gowda, C L L (2007) Pearl millet germplasm at ICRISAT genebank - status and impact. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research, 3. 5pp.. ISSN 0973-3094